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Upton Sinclair

WARREN MSS.

The Warren mss., 1910-1948, are letters from Eugene Victor
Debs, 1855-1926, socialist leader, to Fred D. Warren, 1872-1959,
author. Included are also letters from Theodore Debs, 1864-1945,
bookkeeper, to Warren; letters from Mrs. Katherine (Metzel) Debs,
1857-1936, to Warren; and letters from Howard S. Cady, Stewart
Hall Holbrook, 1893-1964, author, and Fred D. Warren. In addition
to correspondence there are articles by Warren and a book-length
history of the
Appeal to Reason, a fighting newspaper of
the American masses, titled "The Little Old Appeal." A copy of
the history, for which Upton Beall Sinclair wrote the preface, is
in the Sinclair mss.

The correspondence is chiefly concerned with articles for the
Appeal to Reason. The Socialist Party, senators,
congressmen, lawyers, judges, and the U.S. Penitentiary at
Leavenworth, Kansas, and at Terre Haute, Indiana, are
criticized.

Xerox copies were made from the originals in the possession of
Glenn B. Warren, son of Fred D. Warren, in 1966.

Collection size: 72 items

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